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Drupal Restaurant and Food Websites
Drupal excells particularly well with restaurant and food related websites. You'll of course want to let your customers know where you are, what's on the menu, maybe a daily specials page, and if your restaurant has events you'll want a robust powerful event calendar, all included with Digital Immersion's Drupal package. Also included is an email newsletter tool and all the social networking bells and whistles, so your customers can tell each other via social networking just how great you and your food is. Shown here (to the right) is Aki's Cuisine.
Awesome Drupal Based Music Websites
With a nod to Hostbaby's rockin' music sites (Digital Immersion was founded by former Hostbaby staff), Digital Immersion has created a rockin' Drupal based platform for music websites. We have over 25 different looks available for your music player, and amazing, powerful features like selling digital downloads automatically, Digital Immersion's music websites leave hostbaby, bandzoogle, and other caged music website systems in the dust. With over 6000 free add-on modules for Drupal, these other systems just can't compete.
Shown here, the homepage for DJ Trevor Vichas. The front page is his blog that includes links to events he is promoting or playing at. Of course, the newsletter sign up and social network widgets are must-haves to keep the fans informed and engaged. Subpages have some of his latest tracks available to play or download. Lastly, we like to do add personal touches that are just plain cool. In this case we embedded a youtube video of him playing *behind* the old fashioned tv in the header, so the tv actually plays when you visit the site. Nothing is generic over here at Digital Immersion, each project is special.
Drupal has all the ingredients for a perfect blog
Thinking about doing a blog as part of your website, or even as the centerpiece of your site? Drupal has everything you need. Case in point, Fashion Under $50, a fun blog that explores inexpensive fashion ideas. With a blog, the most recent entries appear at the top. New and Improved Newsletter Tool Included with All Sites!
All Digital Immersion websites include the ability to send email newsletters to your friends and fans who have signed up (we have a strict anti-spamming policy). Our email newsletter tool now includes built in html templates, so you can easily send html newsletters.
To get started log in to your site's interface and click on the Email List tool. Your email list should be people who expect to receive your newsletters. Using blind lists purchased from 3rd parties is prohibited.
Easy Jquery Galleries for Drupal
Hey folks,
came across this really neat list of jquery image galleries. As all of our sites have jquery automatically loading, any of these galleries should be relatively easy to implement. Check them out, some of them are really elegant. There's a long list with examples here:
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/web-development/jquery-image-galleries/
How easy is it to transfer your existing site to Drupal?
Digital Immersion's Drupal sites include a variety of fantastic add-on modules to facilitate easy transfer of content. All of our sites include the CKeditor module that allows you to literally copy and paste content from your old website into the editor window. The editor will keep the html code including fonts, colors, and images! This means most pages can be transferred in a matter of seconds! To copy a page from your old site to your new Drupal site simply do the following:
Presenting Digital Immersion's Drupal Blog
We keep discovering (and occaisionally inventing) amazing Drupal features and tricks. We'll present the best of them right here so stay tuned!
EZint 2.0 released
Digital Immersion is up and running the new ezint 2.0 interface which makes it easy for Drupal newbies to create powerful, easy to use websites in a snap. This version includes better support for Ecommerce, SEO, and provides help at your fingertips as you configure your website. Sign up for a free trial today!
New Features added
We're always adding new features for our customers. Since we're running the award winning Drupal, almost anything you've seen a website do is available by request. Here's some of our latest installed features:
New Templates Added!
5 new templates added including Autumn Almanac, Travel, Fields 2009, Dance, Beat, and New Horizon. We're closing in on 300 templates total =c)